OXFORD PLACEMENT TEST 2 GRAMMAR TEST PART 1
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Total Listening _______ / 100 Total Grammar Part 2 _______/ 50 Total Grammar Part 1_______/ 50 Grand total _______/ 200 Look at these examples. The correct answer is indicated in bold.
A In warm climates people like likes are liking sitting outside in the sun. B If it is very hot, they sit at in under the shade.
Now the test will begin. Tick the correct answers.
1 Water be freezing is freezing freezes at a temperature of 0ο C. 1____
2 In some countries there is is it is dark all the time in winter. 2_____ 3 In hot countries people wear light clothes for keeping to keep for to keep cool. 3_____ 4 In Madeira they have the good good a good weather almost all year. 4_____ 5 Most Mediterranean countries are more warm the more warm warmer in Octoberthan in April. 5____ 6 Parts of Australia don,t have the some any rain for long periods. 6____ 7 In the Arctic and Antarctic it is there is it has a lot of snow. 7____ 8 Climate is very important in most of most the most people,s lives. 8___
9 Even now there is little few less we can do to control the weather. 9___ 10 In the future we’ll need we are needing we can need to get a lot of power from 10__ the sun and the wind.
11 Pele is still perhaps most the most the more famous footballer in the world. 11__ 12 He had been is was born in 1940. 12__ 13 His mother not want wasn’t wanting didn’t want him to be a footballer. 13__ 14 But he used ought has used to watch his father play. 14__ 15 His father made him to made him would make him to practise every day. 15__
16 He learned to use or his left foot or and his left foot and both his left foot and his right. 16____ 17 He got the name Pele when he had only ten years was only ten was only ten years. 17___ 18 By 1956 he has joined joined had joined Santos and had scored in his first game. 18__ 19 In 1957 he has been picked was picked was picking for the Brazilian national team. 19___ 20 The World Cup Finals were in 1958 and Pele was looking forward to play to playing to be playing. 20 21 But he hurt this the his knee in a game in Brazil. 21__ 22 He thought he isn’t going to couldn’t wasn’t going to be able to play in the finals in Sweden. 22_ 23 If he hadn’t been weren’t wouldn’t be so important to the team, he would have been left behind. 23__ 24 But he was a such such a a so brilliant player, they took him anyway. 24__ 25 And even though even so in spite of he was injured he helped Brazil to win the final. 25_
The history of the World Cup is quite a a quite quite short one. 26_____ Football has been is being was played for 27_____ above over more that a hundred years, but the first World Cup 28____ competition did not be was not was not being held until 29____ 1930. Uruguay could win were winning had won the Olympic football 30____ final in 1924 and 1928 and wanted be being to be World Champions for the third time. 31___ Four teams entered from Europe, but with a little few little success. 32___ It was the first time which that when professional teams 33___ are playing would play had played for a world title. 34___ It wasn’t until four years later more further that a 35___ European team succeeded to win in winning at winning 36___ for the a its first time. The 1934 World Cup was 37___ again won by a the one home team, 38___ what this which has been the case several times since 39___ then. The 1934 final was among between against two 40__ European teams, Czechoslovakia and Italy, which that who won, 41__ Went on to win winning to have won the 1938 final. Winning 42__ successive finals is something that is not was not has not been achieved 43__ again until Brazil did these them it in 1958 and 1962. If Brazil 44__ would have won would win had won in 1966 then the 45__
authorities would have needed to have let make the original World Cup replaced. 46_____ But England stopped the Brazilians to get getting get a third successive win. An England player, 47_____ Geoff Hurst, scored three goals in the final and won it almost by his own on himself by himself 48____ 1966 proved being as being to be the last year that England 49____ would will did even qualify for the finals till 1982, though they got in as winners in 1970. 50____
GRAMMAR TEST Part 2
51 Many persons people peoples nowadays believe that everyone should learn to use computers. 51___ 52 The majority of children in the UK have has are having access to a micro-computer. 52___ 53 There are more computers per head in England than
anywhere else somewhere else anywhere other in the world. 53__ 54 Learning a computer language is not the same as like than learning a real language. 54__ 55 Most people start off with ‘Basic’, who what which is the easiest to learn. 55__ 56 Children seem to find computers to easy, but many adults aren’t used to work the work working 56_ with microtechnology.
57 There aren’t no any some easy ways of learning to program a computer. 57__ 58 The only way to become really proficient is to practise a lot
on your own by your own on your self. 58__ 59 You can pick up the basics quite quickly if you want to would are willing to make en effort. 59__ 60 Most adults feel it would be easier if only they would have started would start had started 60__ computer studies earlier.
61 Some people would just rather prefer better not have anything to do with computers at all. 61__ 62 A lot have resigned themselves to never even know known knowing how a computer works. 62__ 63 Microtechnology is moving so fast that hardly anybody nobody no one can keep up with it all. 63__ 64 It’s no use in trying to try trying to learn about computers just by reading books. 64__ 65 Everyone has difficulty in learning difficulties to learn it difficult to learn 65__ if they can’t get ‘hands-on’ experience.
Below is a letter written to the ‘advice’ column of a daily newspaper. Tick the correct answers. Dear Marge,
I am writing I will write I should write to you because I 66____ am not knowing don’t know know not what to do. I’m twenty-six and a teacher at 67____ a primary school in Norwich where I’m working I’ve worked I work for the last five years. 68___ When I was have been had been there for a couple of years, one of the older members of staff 69___ would leave left had been leaving and a new teacher 70___ would be became was appointed to work in the same department as me. 71___ We worked have worked should work together with the same classes during her first year 72___ and had the opportunity for building possibilities to build chance to build up a good professional 73__ relationship. Then, about eighteen months after she has arrived to have arrived arriving 74___ in Norwich, she decided to buy her own herself her a house. 75
She was tired of to live live living in rented accommodation and wanted a place 76____ by her own of her own of herself. At about the same time, I 77____ was given have been given gave notice by the landlord of the flat 78____ what I was living that I had lived I was living in 79_____ and she asked me if I liked had liked would like to live 80_____ with her. She said told explained me that by the time she 81______ would pay would have paid had paid the mortgage 82_______
and the bills it there they wouldn’t be 83______
a lot many few left to live on. She suggested 84______
us to we should we may share the house and share the costs. 85_____ It seemed like a good idea, so after we’d agreed we could agree we agreed with all the details 86______ what that who needed to be sorted out, we moved into the new house together. 87_______ At the end of this month we have lived we have been living we’ll have been living 88______ together for a year and a half. It’s the first time I live I’m living I’ve lived with anybody before, but 89__ I should guess I might have guessed I’d have guessed what would happen. I’ve fallen in love 90______ with her and now she’s been offered another job 200 miles away and is going to move. I don’t know what to
Do. Please give me some advice. Yours in shy desperation,
Steve
Look at the following examples of question tags in English. The correct form of the tag is ticked. A He’s getting the 9.15 train, isn’t he hasn’t he wasn’t he?
B She works in a library, isn’t she doesn’t she doesn’t he? C Tom didn’t tell you, hasn’t he didn’t he did he?
D Someone’s forgotten to switch off the gas, didn’t one didn’t they haven’t they? Now tick the correct question tag in the following 10 items:
91 Steve’s off to China, has he hasn’t he isn’t he? 91_____
92 It’ll be a year before we see him again, won’t it won’t we shan’t it? 92______ 93 I believe he’s given up smoking, isn’t he don’t I hasn’t he? 93_____ 94 I’m next on the list to go out there, am not I are I aren’t I? 94_____ 95 No doubt you’d rather he didn’t stay abroad too long, shouldn’t you wouldn’t you hadn’tyou? 95____ 96 He’s rarely been away for this long before, is he hasn’t he has he? 96____
97 So you think he’ll be back before November, shall he will he do you? 97____ 98 Nobody’s disagreed with the latest proposals, did he has he have they? 98_____ 99 We’d better not delay reading this any longer, should we did we had we? 99____ 100 Now’s hardly the time to tell me you didn’t need a test at all, did you is it isn’t it? 100__
